Saturday, February 13, 2010

******* Contest is now Closed. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winner. Thank you!*********

Good morning, all! Happy Valentine's Day weekend! I wanted to share somethingwith you first this morning and then at the end we'll have a little giveaway to celebrate the day of Love. I haven't done one of those in a while and I'm totally in the spirit :)

Let me first mention about a promotion BasicGrey has going on at Scrapbook.com. It features the Bittersweet Collection pack and not only comes with the full collection (18 papers, element sticker sheet and alphabet sticker sheet), but also with pink/rose Opaline pearls, dark chocolate chipboard alphabets as well as a package of Bittersweet Olio Rub-ons....AND the instructions to do 6 different layouts with those papers.These layouts are just two of those six...I hope you'll check them out here and pick up a set! They don't have many left and it would be wonderful to scrap your valentine (or any other) photos!

And finally I want to do a little giveaway featuring our latest Valentine's/Love inspired line,Sugar Rush! Just in time to scrap all those school party photos or your wonderful date night with someone special, I have a full collection pack to give away, as well as a 6x6 paper pad, a set of stamps, a package of Sugar Rush chipboard, some sparkle rub-ons, love notes cards, our new Pieces, a few canvas tags AND two sheets of alphabet stickers - our new mini and micro fonts! Whew! Totally enough to keep you busy for long after February! :) So to enter, please leave me a comment between now and 11:59 pm EASTERN time on Sunday, February 14th telling me something about what you love, someone you love or what you're going to do for Valentine's Day. I'll pop in Monday morning with the winner! Good luck and much love to you all!

******* Contest is now Closed. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winner. Thank you!*********xoxo,k.

218 comments:

This year we are starting a family tradition of breakfast together (even though A.J. isn't old enough to enjoy heart shaped pancakes yet) and then the babysitter is coming over so Karl and I can go out for dinner and a movie. Our first time out since AJ was born!

For Valentine's Day we are having a stay in our PJs day. We'll hang out all together - watch movies, play games, read, and just be. There will be pink pancakes for breakfast, hot dogs cooked in the fireplace and a surprise dinner (my DH is cooking for his girls) followed by chocolate fondue for dessert.

Who needs reservations at a fancy restaurant - I get a day of warm snuggly fun!

hmmmmm... smiles. valentines day brings smiles. abby's all smiles. lol. i love THAT about this valentines day. and daddy daughter date night for david and sara... they are going dancing tonight at church! :) max is all boy... but he did enjoy a heart shaped reese! lol.

As a teacher, you can't beat Valentine's Day in the classroom. And this year I was so proud of my students - they wanted to thank their last year's teacher for the great job she did helping prepare them for this year's writing test. Now that's a great group of kids!

My hubby and I had a 'date day' yesterday to celebrate our Anniversary on Valentine's Day ~ 5 years(as the kids were in school). We decided to get married on Valentine's Day as we met online and beat the 'odds' of having a lasting relationship hence we figured we'd pick an 'over the top' day to get married..lol! (We proved some family and friends wrong..lol).

I think he has something in the works for 'me' on Sunday... we shall see...lol

Aside from that, I'll be celebrating with the three important guys in my life.

What an awesome giveaway! Something I love right now is a challenge I'm participating in with my scrapping group. We've been doing an every-day-layout-challenge for the past 13 days (tomorrow is the last day!), so I've gotten 13 pages done in that time. For me, that's an amazing feeling and I'm really enjoying it. ;)

What a nice giveaway! Thanks, Kelly!With another 3-5 inches of snow headed in our direction tonight and tomorrow, we probably won't be going out anywhere. Looking forward to a nice family game night tonight. Maybe a movie too. For Valentine's day I love to give my kids new books. So tomorrow we will probably be reading a lot. Happy Valentine's weekend!

Wow, that's an amazing giveaway! I love my family, hubby and 3 kids, and we'll be celebrating a low-key Valentine's Day, first by going to church and then snuggling in watching a movie. I'll try to throw in some heart shaped pancakes!

Happy Valentine's Day! I love my family to pieces!!! We are going to have pancakes, strawberries and whip cream for breakfast with the kids and then once the kids go to bed hubby and I will snuggle in with some wine and a movie.

What a great giveaway Kelly! We are going out to eat as a family (I let my hubby pick - he loves Lone Star) and then the kids want me to make Brownie sundaes as a special treat! They have been talking about it for days now! Your projects are always so inspirational & make me want to scrap! Thanks so much for all you do for us...

I loooooove this collection !!!My husband and I don't usually go out for Valentine's day, but this year we're going to spend the day on the coast (we live in France). There is a good restaurant we know there. Have a good week-end, you and your little family.

This year my middle child was diagnosed with a sensory processing disorder. Before discovering that this was the issue, I spent years disliking my child. Of course, a mother could never say those words aloud, but I was torn. I raised her the same as my other mild-mannered, polite, cooperative children, but she was so different. Now, after months of living with the diagnosis, hundreds of doctor visits and therapy sessions, my daughter is completely different child. I am blessed and thrilled to be spending this Valentine's Day with my three children. We can all live in peace, harmony and love knowing that we are in a much better place now. This Valentine's Day will be a special one for me and my Valentines.

gorgeous layouts!! Love the little bum in the air! (it makes scrapping so much easier when you have awesome photos to work with eh?) I love my family, my scrappy time, chocolate, red wine, the twilight saga (gag me, but can't help it), and the song "River Flows in You" by Yiruma (to name a few things).

I love seeing the look of accomplishment in my childrens eyes when they figure something out or master something. The latest of these was my little one mastering her cartwheel and my older DS making his first circuit with his Christmas set. On the crafty side- we made such beautiful valentines with my cricut and basic grey papers (eva, bittersweet and a few urban prairie too!) what fun!n Thanks for the chance to win!!

I love Valentine's Day because it is a built-in calendar day reminding us to show love to those we love! I will be making a special steak dinner for my family, as well as a cheesecake topped with strawberry topping in the shape of a heart - our family tradition.In addition, I have recently "discovered" the Basic Grey line of papers and embellishments, mostly through admiring your work, Kelly. I love your designs - they have been an inspiration to me of late, pulling me out of my scrapbook rut!

I love my dear husband. I love my parents and fabulous sisters. I love my nephews and my princess niece. I love my friends who are always there for me and sometimes I love the quiet - when everything falls in place and I am at peace.

love my husband and my son of five and tomorrow morning we are going go to the bakkery an buy some sandwiches and we gonna have a nice breakfast and then we gonna give each other little gifts...i give my son and husband each a book and i think i'm gonna get haertshaped sweets ;-)

Valentine's day for us will be a quiet day together with maybe going to see a movie. As long as we are together it is all good. Things I love most are my family, my pups, scrapbooking, new BG lines and nature. Happy Valentine's Day and thank you for a chance at an awesome prize!! :)

Hubby and I were talking about love letters last night, and I was telling him how much I appreciate and love him--more now than when we married almost 14 years ago! I think I should write the love letter to him too. We are going to celebrate with a family day tomorrow--games and movies with our children.

awww Kelly! These are gorgeous layouts!hmmm...for Valentines this year we are going to breakfast and then coming home and watching the Nascar race..lol! It was sure nice of them to start the season on Valentines Day ;)

WOW!! What a great giveaway!! This year for Valentines day we are going to have a candy heart treasure hunt around the house with the kids! Then do something sweet for someone in need! My husband and I are going to see "Dear John" tonight!! Just a calm weekend with the Family this year!! I love PINK and RED!!!!! HAPPY VALENTINES TO YOU!!!

This giveaway is so generous... thank you for the chance. WOW!My hubs and I have a silly tradition for V-Day. We go to Arby's. We never go any other day.... ever. In fact, we don't really care for the food there. Long story short, we ended up there on our first V-Day as a married couple. We joked about what a cheap date I was, and found ourselves doing it again the next year. We've gone to Arby's once a year for 7 years now. And we never have to fight the crowds at the more romantic restaurants.

Wowee, now that's a giveaway! Gorgeous layouts too! What I love is my family. My husband and I will celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary in March, and we have two little boys that are the loves of my life. God has blessed us so much! :) Happy Valentine's Day.

I am in love with my two grandbabies!Sunday, my ex-husband is taking me to breakfast to celebrate Valentines (yes, we have a better relationship now).And have completely fallen in love with Basic Grey because of your work! You are my favorite designer!

Something or someone I love right now... well, other than the obvious answers (my husband, my kids, etc.), I'd have to say that I love watching my boys play tennis. It's not always convenient to drive them here and there, but I don't mind the waiting around for them because I truly enjoy watching them play.

Another fabulous giveaway!!!I absolutely LOVE everything that you design :) I also LOVE being a "BoyMom"...After being such a girly girl all my life, I never thought that I would end up with BOYS!!! BUT they are the greatest GIFTS that I have ever received :) Happy Valentines Day!

Awesome giveaway! I'll be spending Valentine's Day visiting my best friend's church...she and her husband are being ordained as worship pastors. Then, I'll be hanging out the rest of the day with my 9 yr. old dd. Ice cream just might be involved. Hubby is working and my 18 yr. old dd will be spending the day with her boyfriend.

I'm spending Valentine's Day with the people I love most, my husband and two kids. We'll be at church and soccer for most of the day, but we also have tickets to Stomp, and we're all looking forward to it!Thanks so much for the chance to win these beautiful BG items!

Since dh's birthday is the 13th, we always try to get out for Valentine's day weekend. This year, he mentioned he would like to go visit our semi-local casino, so I think we will be heading there tonight.

My sweeties (38, 6 and 3)gave me an early Valentine's gift yesterday when they participated and gave great smiles for an awesome family picture. We celebrated with dinner out as a family (bonus: we got to avoid the Sunday rush!). On Valentine's Day we'll get crab legs and eat at home!

What a great set of paper and embellishments. I will be enjoying dinner and a movie with my DH. Nice to set aside some time to ourselves. Then later I will be catching up on the results of the Olympics - which I love and canot get enough of.

What a great giveaway! I helped a friend make valentines, and took a class with her today on cardmaking, and that's gotten me in the mood to make my own valentines.I love my Grandmama, and while she's back in California, I have a few surprises pre-planned for her that she should be getting. Yay!

Who do I love definately my husband and two gorgeous children!!!! We started the morning off with pancakes for breakfast and then tonight my DH is cooking us (our 2 children and myself) a gorgeous new recipe for dinner. Have a fabulous Valentines.

This year we took a 4 day weekend. DD and I took a Mom and Me scrapbook class on friday while DS and DH did boy stuff. Today we went to the park. For tomorrow we will have treats, but mainly more family time. Thanks for the chance to win that fabulous giveaway!! :)

You're such a sweetheart. We're a bit short on money 'til pay day next week so my hubby & I aren't doing anything special for V. Day. But he's so good at showing me he loves me every day of the year that he doesn't need to make an extra effort on this one day. Thanks for the chance to win.

What a great giveaway! Very generous indeed! Thanks for the opportunity to win it!

Tomorrow, my husband and I are going out for dinner. I also am making him cupcakes with his favorite candy on top. Not forgetting our sweetest valentine, we are also taking our puppy to Petco to get some treats from the Treat Bar there as they are his favorite. Should be a great day!

Happy Valentine's Day! I made a photo collage for my sweetie to take into his office now that he has his own store (yay promotion!). I think we might go out tonight for a bit. I'd like to pick up some small tokens for the kiddos and it is much nicer if he goes with me :)

I love my crazy family! With two parents, and five kids there is always chaos! But I wouldn't trade it for anything else. No Valentine's excitement here, but we will be grilling steaks and I bought some sparkling apple juice! oH YEAH, living it up!

my husband is awesome. Going through some tough times but when all is said and done, both just remembering to be thankful that we took our vows seriously. That and we've seen each other drunk before (smile). Happy VDay...simple ones and otherwise.

I'll be celebrating Valentine's Day a week late this year (such is this case when you're married to a medical student and life revolves around test schedules and ward rotations), yet I'm excited that we'll get to celebrate at the same restaurant that we got married at last year.

i happen to love basic grey paper.....what are we doing this weekend..scrapping.. i believe in being romantic all year long. don't buy me anything special just because 'they' say so.. do it cause you want to

This Valentine's is a bit extra special for me and my DH. Just a few months ago my DH said I could stay home with our twins. He has made me the happiest wife and mother. He has given me so much and sacrificed so much for me. I plan on waiting on him hand and foot and throwing in some foot and back rubs. Then we'll top it off with a movie - "Valentine's Day"

Did I mention he's taking me on a cruise to Mexico next week? How lucky am I to have such an amazing man.

We normally don't celebrate Valentine's Day here as our wedding anniversary was last week and we celebrate it instead. But our 2 year old daughter made a card for our 5 year old son and the look on his face when he received it was precious. It reminded me of the beauty of true love.

Your Bittersweet layouts are stunning Kelly...such cute photo subjects too:0) For Valentine's we went to see the movie "Valentine's Day" last night and this morning hubbie made me breakfast in bed and gave me some chocolates. We have been together for 22 Val's Days now and many more to come for sure...he is a keeper:) Hope your day is fabulous too! xL

My husband and I are staying home all day, doing nothing but just enjoying each other. Every year for Valentine's Day he makes me the same dinner (stuffed shells) and a delicious dessert. This year we couldn't pick just one dessert, so he's making me two!

Thanks for the awesome give-a-way. I am totally in love with my husband and little boy Owen. I feel like I am so blessed everyday with these two amazing people. They give me more joy than I could have ever imagined. God has been good to me.

Tomorrow we will attend morning mass and then my son and I are going to get some craft supplies to make Valentines for his cousins and Nana and then we will deliver them. My husband and I are going out to the Cheesecake Factory some time next week to celebrate. We never get to go out to eat together alone anymore so we are both really looking forward to it!

i am loving the family day stay at home holiday for monday here in canada, the fact that i had a fabulous day scrapping at a lovely new to me scrap shop...and tomorrow is low key and quiet! love weekends that are part of a vacation week! yeah me...

We will be going to a Valentine's Day lunch with my youngest 2 and DH at The Rainforest Cafe. My oldest daughter is going tubing with a friend for her birthday, so to make tomorrow special, we're spending time with the younger 2 doing something they love (and so do I).

My husband and I will go out to dinner Sunday night. If he got the hint he signed me up for the next 12 months of Basic Grey's POTM classes for Valentine's Day. I love my boys but I also love Basic Grey!

Hi Kelly - this year, Valetine's Day will be my husband & I's 12th anniversary. You can definitely tell it will be the 12th as my husband will be working & I will be doing housework & homework with the child!! LOL!! Keep up the great work!!

Thanks for the giveaway! I've enrolled in Lain Ehmann's February LOAD and it has helped me revisit my yummy stash of BG. :) We are celebrating as a family this year instead of only as a couple. The four of us are going to have dinner at my ILs. It will be fun. :)

Those LO's are awesome!!! Makes me want to really buy the bittersweet collection!!! Today is V-day so we're heading to a famous Japanese restaurant - Miyabi for a sumptuous lunch! Happy Valentines to you!!!

great pages!!!! love your style... I am in LOVE with my husband and kids. .I LOVE to scrap.. and for Valentines day we are just hanging out as a family, but hubby and I took a lunch date on Friday to my fave place to eat

Gorgeous layouts! Thanks for the chance at the awesome giveaway! I LOVE my hubby and baby girl and am looking forward to spending the day with them tomorrow. I also LOVE to scrap and am hoping to make some time for that tomorrow too!

Since we usually spend Sunday lunch w/ DH's parents we decided to have a special dinner Saturday night (tonight) we made reservations at a place that was hosting a fancy dinner (they usually have breakfast and lunch only) and took the twins with us.(We took their dinner w/us because they don't eat fancy foods-the waitress & chef were very relieved & ok'd it in advance!) And spent a wonderful evening talking and visiting in a very delightful setting.

DH even surprised me with an early Valentine's Day gift! A gorgeous shell pendant w/inlaid tourquoise that I saw in a shop under the Mangy Moose restaurant in Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wy. He had told me I couldn't buy it (at the time) and then gone back and purchased it with this in mind! Awwww... LOVE it! It's the first piece of jewelry he's given me other than my engagement/wedding ring (it's the same ring but filled both jobs) more than 10 years ago!

This is such an awesome giveaway! I have never won a giveaway--would be tickled pink to win this one. I LOVE basic grey! Your work is so much fun! I especially like to see pages with multiple pictures.I will spend Valentine's day with my sweetheart!

I love how something simple can be turned into something extraordinary when you put a little passion to it: pancake: nice, a heart-shaped pancake: how sweet :) I love to celebrate valentine's just by doing something small and sweet! (what about winning the "sugar rush" line hahaha)happy valentines!

I love the Sugar Rush Collection it reminds me of my sweet husband that always gives me a rush. I know that sounds silly since we have been married for 36 yrs but trully he is as sweet today as he was at 16. I must be one of the luckiest ladies there are.

Not much of a valentines this year...boyfriend is out of town and I am working the evening shift at work. going to make the kids a special valentines breakfast (heart shaped pancakes). thanks for the chance to win some BG goodies :)

Luv these beautiful layouts, you do such nice work:) I downloaded the instructions a few weeks ago from scrapbook.com I definitely plan on making these but I already have this kit. Today my 10 yr old daughter and I will be making cupcakes for some sweet Valentines gifts!

Well it's nearly the end of valentine's day here in Australia and DH knew I needed some me time today so took the kids out early this morning. Have spent the day crafting and sewing and the kids joined me once they came home.Love your layouts - always inspiring.

wow... what a wondeful giveaway kelly, would definitely love to get my hands on some sugar {sweet} rush goodies...

over here in singapore it's already valentine night... initially we planned to go out for dinner, but unfortunate this year valentine day falls on the same day as chinese new year and therefore most resturants are closed. so a nice candle light homecooked dinner (speaking of which, still in the middle of cooking). thanks piradee

I just had a wonderful time celebrating Chinese New year and Valentines Day with some friends and my DH. Food was awesome and everything is so sweet and perfect. With all the joy that Im feeling, I've finished 4 layouts after our date. I would love to work on something using the Sugar Rush line.

well I definitely love that bittersweet line. it's my favorite valentine's line ever and maybe my favorite BG line too.

we dont really do valentines day here. but this is kind of funny. my parents took my daughter overnight on sat night, the day before v-day and what did DH and I do? order pizza, he had an old friend over for a little while, then we played rockband. lol - maybe we are getting old.

I love my 2 guys more than I ever thought possible... My husband is wondrfully supportive and enabling of my hobbies. He is kind and loving and the best Dad in the world to our son. Our son just makes everything better...getting up on a cold morning to that smile makes all the cares in the world leave me. Seeing me discover new things melts me heart every time.

Awesome giveaway! I love, love, love all things Basic Grey, of course! My hubby and daughter and I will be spending this day making the rounds to his mom's then mine. What better way to spend a day about love with the ones you love?!

I Love my husband and children. We've already made and swapped cards, but tonight we are each making our own heart-shaped pizza and having heart-shaped finger jello. The four kids (ages 3 and 6) are already excited!

I love making hand made Valentine cards and exchanging them :-) I also love the timing of the Holiday...been a long cold Michigan winter!!!Thanks for perking us all up with a chance to win such an incredible give-away!!!!!

My valentine is out of town and my son is working so I'm spending Valentine's Day giving myself some lovin'. I'm thoroughly enjoying a quiet Sunday catching up on blogs and being inspired by all the talent available right at my finger tips.

I will be spending this Valentine's Day having some good old fashioned scrap therapy. My husband is deployed onboard USS Carney DDG-64, so it's just me and the kitties here on the homefront. I am SO PROUD of him, but selfishly I wish he was able to be home with me instead. Oh well, for the next 6 months or so scrap therapy will just have to suffice! LOL Thanks for the chance at winning your AMAZING giveaway! You totally rock! ;o)

I was lucky enough to spend the day with my dear sweet hubby! This year we decided to make each other handmade cards! He knows I am obsessed with owls and he made me the most adorable card ever! It meant so much to me!!!!

We aren't big on celebrating Valentine's Day, but this morning went out for breakfast at Cracker Barrel before church. The boys gave us handmade cards and we gave them small bags with chocolate, gum and baseball cards. We've enjoyed a quiet (well, as quiet as it can be with two boys!) day at home.

I'm so excited about this Valentine's Day because this year my husband and I are decorating our bedroom. We have our new bedroom furniture set scheduled to be delivered on Wednesday and we've been out shopping for bedding, curtains, picture frames and whatever other decorative items we could find. It's been so fun! We cannot wait until its done.

I love that fabulous line..What an awesome give-a-way..The hubby and I spent the day at home w/our precious 11 year old son and had a family dinner together and i even baked a heart shaped cake for the guys:)

What a great give away. I love my husband and family so very much. It was a tough Valnetine's day this year as my hubby was away in Tennesse working. He was able to be here earlier in the week to spend time with us. He is such a wonderful husband, father and great provider we are very blessed.